Little League

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Little League Baseball
Littleleague logo.jpg

Full name Little League Baseball and Softball
League foundation 1939
Website littleleague.org

The Little League is a non-profit organization in the United States that hosts baseball and softball leagues for children and teenagers. It focuses on the USA with several million players in its leagues, but operates worldwide. Carl Stotz founded the Little League in 1939 with three teams in Williamsport , Pennsylvania . Their headquarters are today in South Williamsport . In the US itself, Little League is often used as a metaphor for happy American family life.

Boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 18 play in Little Leagues . The leagues are divided into six age groups: Tee Ball, Minors, Little (or Majors), Junior, Senior, and Big. The age limits are not uniform across the various leagues; there are large regional differences, especially in the younger classes. In the Little League , 11 and 12 year olds usually play, in the Juniors 13 and 14 year olds, Seniors 15 and 16 year olds and Big 17 and 18 year olds. Many leagues allow young people who are one year younger to play in the leagues. The Challenger Division is for children with disabilities. In addition to pure fun, the goals of the Little League also include educational goals such as learning teamwork, sportsmanship and fairness.

Eight World Series are held annually, two each in Little, Junior, Senior and Big League, each in softball and baseball. The best known is the Little League World Series , which takes place annually in August in South Williamsport , Pennsylvania . In tournaments in the USA (including the Virgin and Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico ), as in the rest of the world, qualifying tournaments are held. In 2003, for example, there were some in Canada , Germany , Poland , various Latin American and Asian countries.

Protection against overload damage

Too many maximum throws impair the development of the players, especially in childhood and adolescence. Since college pitchers average almost 100 maximum throws per game, i. H. 1200 have to throw in the 13-week season (replacement pitcher on average only 250), it is above all the best throwers who run a considerable risk of overload. In order to limit this in children and young people, but still prepare them for the adult baseball game, the Little League has issued protective regulations. Depending on the age and the number of litters per day, these determine how many rest days must be taken without litters in the sequence. This is to ensure that the best are not burned up early . For control purposes, the scorers must also keep the throw statistics.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Love, S .; Aytar, A .; Bush, H. (2010). Descriptive analysis of pitch volume in Southeastern Conference baseball pitchers. North A. Journal Sp Phys Therapy 5 (4): 194-20
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger (2014). Overload. Performance sports 44 (5): 24-25

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